From: Kahlil Hodgson <kahlil.hodgson at dealmax.com.au> > On 08/28/2010 01:40 AM, didi wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:38 PM, John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com> wrote: > >> just wondering if you also experience gnome terminals freezing after a >while...? > >> It mainly happens over the week-end. > >> I would leave a terminal open (with an ssh session to a remote site), come >back > >> on monday and type a few commands and it jwould just freeze. > >> But it also happen from time to time randomly during the day (but still >with > >> days old terminals). > >> Happens to my collegues too. > >> The Gnome terminal Reset option would not do anything. > >> any idea what could be the problem? > > Maybe have a look at the strace. But if you have an ssh session open > > chances are, that timed out. > In which case the escape sequence '~.' should close the connection and > give you could terminal back. And it is not a simple timeout; it is a total terminal freeze. The thing is that, on monday, I can still use it a little bit before it freezes... I would do a ls or df... and it works for a while and then it freezes in the middle of the output... Pressing the return key won't go to the next line, etc... But the Gnome terminal menus still work fine. JD